2015 Family History Benefit Dinner : James Carville and Mary Matalin

On April 24, 2015, we hosted our Family History Benefit Dinner for more than 200 guests—the largest attendance to date for this annual event—at the Taj Boston Hotel. The guests of honor were James Carville and Mary Matalin, well known for their roles in recent presidential administrations and as commentators on the American political scene. The couple also authored the 2014 bestselling book Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home. Carville and Matalin were presented with the NEHGS Lifetime Achievement Award for Political Studies and Commentary and also received their family histories, researched and custom-produced by our staff.

Following the award presentation, Matalin and Carville—one of the nation’s most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couples—each presented lively and often humorous remarks on their individual and joint life experiences.